NORCAL OPPONENTS SET FOR REDWOOD, BRANSON

Here are the results from Tuesday’s NorCal first-round games, which settled the next opponents for the Redwood and Branson boys and the Redwood girls.

Boys Division II
No. 6 Oakmont-Roseville 69, No. 11 Montgomery 54
Oakmont (23-7) will now play at No. 3 Redwood (29-2) at 7 p.m. on Thursday after jumping to a 24-11 lead and never looking back. Montgomery had been the No. 1 seed in the North Coast Section, ahead of No. 2 Redwood.

and Redwood play your own game. I think you can overscout someone and concentrate on what they are doing rather than winning which is a reason why I think Monty didn’t play that well. Should be a fun game. Go Redwood!

Just want to say Thank you to the Redwood team and coaches. The better team won tonight. Redwood got out with a lot of nerves and I hardly saw their trad d at all during the game. But they came back and played well. Redwood is usually bigger or faster but Oakmont had a big size advantage combined with good speed that was just slight slower than Redwood, and good outside shooting.
Still, GREAT YEAR Redwood. By far the best team in Marin and Santa Rosa, NCS champs and one of the best Redwood teams in a generation.

Sorry we never got to do it for Redwood. It just became a matter of not having the manpower here at the IJ. With three teams alive and a full array of spring sports, we barely had the staff to get the paper out. I am still hopeful that we can live blog the NorCal finals, if either of the Branson teams get that far. More on that after Saturday’s semis.